Platform Engineering: DevOps evolution or a fancy rename? - OpenObservability Talks S3E05

Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE? And how does observability pertain to platform engineering?

On this episode of OpenObservability Talks Horovits hosted George Hantzaras, Director of Cloud Platform Engineering at Citrix. George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader with focus on delivering B2B cloud services at scale. Coming from a DevOps background, he focuses on implementing SRE at enterprise scale working with cloud native technologies. He has been organizing the Athens Cloud Computing Meetup since 2016 and the Athens Hashicorp User Group. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Hashiconf, DeveloperWeek, Voxxed Days, DevNexus and more, focusing on reliability engineering, agile leadership, scaling engineering teams, and entrepreneurship.

The episode was live-streamed on 6 October 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/zJGMUVY6fDM

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Show Notes:

• Why Platform Engineering?
• Different teams employ different stacks. How does Platform Engineering fits in?
• Platform Engineering at Citrix
• How does it map to the common DevOps maturity models?
• Is Platform Engineering different from PaaS?
• Platform as a product
• Culture element is central in Platform Engineering
• Generating buy-in within the product’s engineering
• Metrics and quantifying the benefits of Platform Engineering
• Balancing flexibility and simplicity, and striking the right level of abstraction
• Delimitation between what’s developed by Platform vs. Product teams.
• Generating Golden Paths for engineering
• Observability and Platform Engineering

Resources:

• George Hantzaras presentations
• Designing Golden Paths
• platformengineering.org
• Platform Engineering KPIs

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